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Travel Stop's customers and staff recommendations are:-
Whistler, Canada.
Six massive high-alpine powder bowls, including one called Doom & Gloom, put Whistler firmly on the map for
thrill-seekers. Annual snow-fall of over 30 feet make sure there's plenty of off-piste and powder. For advanced skiers, it just doesn't get much better than on the adjoining Whistler and Blackcombe Mountains here in Canada's British Columbia. Blackcombe has steepness with long glacial descents, Whistler has bumps, couloirs, bowls and chutes. Competent boarders and thrill-seekers,
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St Anton, Austria.
As well as having an international reputation for glitz and glamour, St Anton is blessed with world-class skiing, amazing powder and opportunities for huge off-piste mileage. For experts, the skiing's as hard as you want it to be, with a steep drop back to Zura, the challenging powder bowls of the Valluga and some seriously testing lower slopes. |
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Borovets, Bulgaria.
If budget is a concern, and let's face it, when isn't it with a family, then consider one of the less expensive destinations where you probably won't bump into the Beckhams, but the snow is the same colour and the skiing is good! Borovets in Bulgaria has crèches, ski schools for children and kindergartens, free lift passes for kids aged 8-12, folk nights, barbecues and wine tasting, oh, and good value, very good skiing. |
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Vail, Colorado, USA.
Ranked as one of the finest ski resorts in the world, Vail's reputation for fulfilling the demands of the most expert skier centres around the awesome powder of its seven Back Bowls. While skiers wait for the snow dumps to fill them out, the double-blacks at the front - including the hairy Hairball Alley - put most skiers through their paces. |
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Chamonix, France.
Nestling beneath Mont Blanc, Europe's highest mountain, Chamonix is a little over an hour's drive from Geneva, making it a great choice for a ski weekend. If they had to, skiers would probably travel much further for its superb range of intermediate and advanced skiing. Boarders won't be disappointed either; Chamonix is known as the extreme free-riding capital of Europe. And when the sun sets, it's a lively town with over 100 restaurants and some of the coolest bars in the Alps
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